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Re:Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Indu... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:53AM (#20635845)
In that case, the baseline was directly ripped off, it wasn’t just “sounded similar”, it was an actual sample.
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Re:Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Indu... by gsg21 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:28PM (#20636880)
But to hear Vanilla Ice explain it is pretty hilarious - https://youtu.be/6TLo4Z_LWu4
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Re:Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Indu... by goda90 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:00PM (#20635904)
If sampling to create new art were better protected, then cases like this wouldn't even come up. The documentary "Good Copy Bad Copy" was talking about this 12 years ago
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Re:Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Indu... by rtkwe on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:47PM (#20637034)
Yeah I think we're long overdue to reevaluate what copyright means in music. I think it should be much closer to how we treat fashion where anything but a direct rip off is 100% fair game (and that is even more about trademarks because the actual design can't be copyrighted).
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